Virginia City

noun

1. a mining town in W Nevada: famous for the discovery of the rich Comstock silver lode 1859.

Example Sentences

A massive monument of General Robert E Lee that once sparked riots in the Virginia city of Charlottesville is now a pile of melted-down bronze, artfully displayed in a Los Angeles museum.

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A 42-year-old Democrat whose parents emigrated from Ramallah, Rasoul led a recent rally in his southwestern Virginia city, where he shouted into a megaphone that “Tax dollars should not be used to kill innocent people on the other side of the world.”

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Attorneys are likely to argue over those questions Friday in the Virginia city of Newport News, where Abby Zwerner is suing the public schools for $40 million.

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Jim McCrossin, 78, a retiree from Virginia City, Nev., who surveyed the ranch in a DeSantis cap, said that he had previously supported Mr. Trump but worried about his electability.

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City leaders this week kicked off their “Zoning for Housing/Housing for All” initiative, which will study and eventually recommend changes to municipal rules that govern what can be built where in this Northern Virginia city of about 160,000.

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